I was talking to a friend of mine last night who runs one of these on Windows and he was finding it very difficult to get any smooth performance from it without throwing up errors or popping and clicking at even a 1024 buffer size. Until i asked him if it was plugged into a USB 3.0 port.

It was, I told him to re-plug it into a USB 2.0 port , He did, and it then worked very well. It certainly seems that a lot of USB 2.0 devices really suffer on USB 3.0